remote printing (vt100-style) through Xterm or other terminal interface
2007-12-25 10:09:00
summary I have owed the list for a long time. I hadn't sent anything before
because I didn't have the solution; I hope this still helps some of you.
My original query:
>System: Sparc Classic, 16MB RAM, SUNOS 4.1.3_U1, OpenWindows 3.0 w/patches
>
>A bit of background: most DEC VT100 terminal emulators honor the ESC [ 5i
>sequence which routes screen output to a printer port. I realize that
>'xterm' as delivered with OW3 does not support this. I also realize you
>can display the remote file, mark it with the mouse, and send it to the
>printer of your choice with 'xv_get_sel'; this is fine for short files,
>but longer ones don't lend themselves to this method. Does anyone know of a
>program or solution (preferably public domain) such that printing a remote
>file thru an emulator may be accomplished? A different VT100 emulator would
>be an acceptable solution, or a patch to 'xterm' if anyone has done it would
>work for me.
>
>I will summarize.
... and here it is:
The program is rxvt version 2.16 (and patch 1, get them both), available from
ftp.linux.org:/pub/mirrors/tsx-11/sources/usr.bin.X11/rxvt-2.16.tar.gz and
rxvt-2.16-patch1.gz .
Some changes have to be made; the current maintainer helped work me through
the following, which he is going to include in a subsequent release:
o run ./configure as usual and change the following in the resultant
config.h file in the appropriate places, disabling anything else there:
#define STDC_HEADERS 1
#undef HAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H
We don't know why, but my gcc headers just didn't work correctly during the
compile...
o modify src/command.c around line 1677 or so to read
return fclose (stream);
instead of
return pclose (stream);
o follow all the other instructions as stated, and you should end up with a
working rxvt, complete with remote print capability!
Thanks so much to all who replied to my original query, and to the current
maintainer of rxvt, Mark Olesen (olesen@me.QueensU.CA) for his invaluable
help.
Cheers, everyone,
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